A Foundation:
- established in April 2002 by private persons, who have all had personal experiences, as volunteers, in Africa.
- The only aim of the Foundation is charity; it is based on volunteer work of the Foundation members, and of all those who are willing to help, collaborate, participate.
- It is dedicated to James, a child from Adwa, seriously ill, who died at the age of only 4. James has become the symbol of all the kids
whom we don’t want to see die anymore.
operating in Ethiopia
- presently, in Adwa, in the region of the Tigray Plateau, in the North, at the border with Eritrea, at approximately 2,000 m. of height.
- 45% of the population here is under 15 years of age, with about 18% under 5
- Children’s mortality rates are dramatically high, and life expectancy at birth is about 42 years.
- On average, in the country, 1 woman out of 9 dies at childbirth, but in the villages, rates are much higher.
- Aids, tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition are daily realities, and diseases like trachoma, bilharziosis, meningitis, dysentery are still present in the country
having the aim of
- helping poorest and the more needy people, in a free, full and complete way, with a particular care for the orphans, the sick ones, the widows, the abandoned women, the disabled;
- hosting abandoned orphans in the “JNM JNM Children’s Village”, to give them the opportunity to grow up in a quiet, familiar environment, go to school, and have medical assistance;
- giving care to malnourished and dehydrated children through the “Emergency Center”;
- creating job opportunities - mainly for women - through the design, set-up, and financial support of “work projects”, in order to improve the familiar situation of the children;
- providing tangible and direct help to children of the poorer families, in order to meet their immediate needs.
- To have recourse only to voluntary work to “helping not to need help anymore”
in which
- there are no costs for publicity or propaganda (information materials is designed and created in-house);
- general costs are covered by the Foundation members (headquarters, furniture, administrative personnel, computers, photocopying machines, printers, stationery, etc.);
- other specific and general services are provided free of charge by Volunteers (Joy for the website, and Dino for computer assistance);
- collected funds are entirely used for charity activity.
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It choose to
- work independently from any national or supranational institution or organization, without using public funding, or operating within the framework of national and international projects, in order to avoid bureaucratic burdens;
- use exclusively funds provided by private individuals, in order to preserve independence, and freedom of action in all operational choices;
- avoid all expenses for publicity, using essentially word of mouth, in order to build between foundation members, volunteers, and donors a personal invisible link, a feeling of belonging in the activity of the foundation, and the awareness of really and personally doing something in favor of the needy.
arranging for
- the management and operation of the “JNM Children’s Village”, which hosts abandoned orphans;
- the management of the “Emergency Center”, devoted to nutritional therapy and recovery of malnourished and dehydrated children;
- the design, set-up, and financial support of the “work projects - even in cooperation with local Authorities - dedicated to the mothers of children assisted through distance adoptions
